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Lawmakers to Examine Rehab of Mentally Ill, Addicted Inmates
Updated, Tuesday, April 22, at 3:29 p.m.: Prison officials and advocacy groups told lawmakers on Tuesday that when it comes to ensuring that inmates with substance abuse and mental illness issues don’t...
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Report: Prison Heat Violates Basic Human Rights
At least 14 Texas prisoners have died from overheating since 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the University of Texas School of Law Human Rights Clinic, which argues that extreme...
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Sex Offender Agency's Presiding Board Member Quits
Amid controversy over the placement of dangerous sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences, the presiding member of a board that oversees a little-known agency that manages civilly...
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Lawmakers Urged to Reform Parole With Technology
*Clarification appendedThe solution to saving money on the state prison system may be more spending on technology, experts and lawmakers mused at a Tuesday panel on criminal justice policy. In light of...
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In Cellphone Contraband Cases, Few Face Charges
Armed with shovels, correctional officers at a prison in East Texas last summer unearthed a cache filled with hundreds of smuggled items, including 45 cellphones and 52 chargers. Nearly a year later,...
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With More Inmates on Dialysis, Officials Deal With Rising Costs
Less than 1 percent of the Texas prison population needs dialysis, a treatment that removes waste and water from the bloodstream.But they are an expensive group — and their ranks are growing. Today,...
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A Home for Former Inmates, Founded by a Former Inmate
When Terry Pelz, a former warden with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, testified against a prison gang leader, Mark Fronckiewicz, in the 1993 capital murder trial of a fellow inmate, he had...
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The Playlist: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Texas A&M University’s decision a few years ago to leave the Big 12 and cast its lot with the Southeastern Conference was widely criticized and mocked — by everyone but Aggies, who saw the move as...
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"Bernie" Victim's Family Files Objection to His Release from Prison
Updated, 5 p.m., June 25:The family of Marjorie Nugent filed an amicus brief with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday afternoon protesting the early release of Nugent's killer, Bernie Tiede....
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Search: Pardons by Gov. Rick Perry
Gov. Rick Perry has issued at least 221 pardon proclamations since taking office in December 2000. We've made our existing searchable database easier to navigate by name, issuance year, crime type...
View ArticleVideo: Program Unites Veterans Serving Time
They served their country, then ended up on the wrong side of the law. But many of Texas' veterans serving time behind bars are getting the guidance to stay out of the legal system upon their release,...
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Woman Executed for Boy's 2004 Starvation Death
Editor's note: This story has been updated after Lisa Ann Coleman's execution.Texas death row inmate Lisa Ann Coleman was executed Wednesday night, the sixth woman put to death since the death penalty...
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2014 TribuneFest: Audio From the Justice Track
The justice track at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival featured panel discussions on criminal justice reform, the Texas Supreme Court, same-sex marriage and the death penalty. Listen to audio of each...
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Texas Prison Inmate Database Updated
The Texas Tribune's prison inmate database, containing more than 146,000 offenders, is now updated with the latest data available from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It is now current as of...
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Prison Officials Seek Ways to Recruit, Retain Officers
This story is part of our Shale Life project. Watch this slideshow to see how prisons are working to hang onto corrections officers.BEEVILLE — Seventeen soon-to-be corrections officers in blue and gray...
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Texas Prisons Make Family Visits Easier
-->Hoping to weave stronger social safety nets for inmates after they are released, the Texas prison system is making it easier for family members to visit loved ones behind bars. "We took a closer...
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Panetti Doesn't Need Mental Health Treatment, Prison Doctor Says
-->Scott Louis Panetti entered Texas prison with a well-documented psychiatric history, including two involuntary commitments at Kerrville State Hospital, and lengthy inpatient stays at Veterans...
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Court Tells TDCJ to Name Lethal Injection Drug Suppliers
*Correction appended.*Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a comment from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.The name of the compounding pharmacy supplying lethal injection drugs...
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Ushering in Several Reforms, But Not Always Leading the Charge
Rick Perry will leave behind a criminal justice system in healthier shape than when he stepped in as governor. Terri Langford writes that how instrumental Perry was in improving it remains an open...
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Report: Blind, Deaf, Disabled Inmates Abused in Texas Prison Unit
Floyd Blackburn recently included the following anecdote in a letter from his cell at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville to the Prison Justice League, a prisoner rights group in Austin: “One sergeant stuck...
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